New 8-speed DVD+R drives by Sony

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Posted on Friday 14th of November, 2003 at 16:00 by SirQUK
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We spotted on CDR-Info that there has been an announcement from Sony about their internal and external drives that support the DVD Alliance's 8-speed DVD+R spec.

"The internal drive (DRU-530A) will be available from next month for $257 ex VAT, while the external one (DRX-530UL) will be available from January at a price yet to be confirmed.

The 8-speed write specification was ratified by the Alliance in August, promising to burn DVD+R discs in less than ten minutes.

The drives only offer 8-speed performance for writing DVD+R discs: DVD+RW discs are burned at 4-speed. And although the drives support the -R format, performances with these discs are halved.

The internal drive is a half-height ATAPI (EIDE) device. The external one offers USB 2.0 and iLink (FireWire) interfaces. Both have a 2MB buffer memory.

The drives are sold with Sony's PC-only suite of applications for DVD-authoring, burning, formatting, playing and music managing. "

It seems all DVDR manufacturers are playing catch up with Plextors Flagship PX 708 DVDRW+/- D drive, who seem to be setting the standard in the DVDRW+/- market.

The full article can be found Here and A full review of the drive, outlaying more of the drives specifications can be found by looking at ZDNET.

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